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Ecclesiastes 2:5

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  1. Ecclesiastes 2:3

    I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

  2. Ecclesiastes 2:4

    I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

  3. Ecclesiastes 2:6

    I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

  4. Ecclesiastes 2:7

    I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.